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Subject: POS Software/Hardware Systems in Retail
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: jenni-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 02 Aug 2002 12:26 PDT
Expires: 01 Sep 2002 12:26 PDT
Question ID: 49025
Of these department store retailers, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue,
Federated (Bloomingdales, Macy's, etc.), Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus
and Henri Bendels, give me the POS system used for each one.
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Subject: Re: POS Software/Hardware Systems in Retail
Answered By: snapanswer-ga on 02 Aug 2002 13:49 PDT
 
This is an interesting question.  Some major solution providers in
this space appear to be Retek, QRS, and Logility.  For each retailer,
I will list the vendors that they use.  In addition, I will provide
links to the vendors, and to related articles that you may find
interesting.

Federated      QRS
Saks           QRS, Logility Voyager
Nordstrom      Retek, Fujitsu (new), Wincor-Nixdorf
Lord & Taylor
Neiman Marcus
Henri Bendels
May            QRS

Vendors:
Retek
http://www.retek.com/

QRS
http://www.qrs.com/

Logility
http://www.logility.com/

Fujitsu POS
http://www.ftxs.fujitsu.com/fujitsutemp.asp?navid=691

Wincor-Nixdorf
http://www.wincor-nixdorf.com/internet/com/Industries/Retail/Main.html

Retail Info Systems News Vendor Guide: POS Hardware
http://www.risnews.com/SB2001/hardware-systems-listings.html#pos

Retail Info Systems News Vendor Guide: Vendor Directory
http://www.risnews.com/SB2001/vendor_A-B.html

Articles of Interest:
National Retail Federation's Stores Online, "Information for Action"
by Susan Reda
http://www.stores.org/archives/mar02cover.html

Computerworld, "Nordstrom buying new sales terminal system in $30M
deal with Fujitsu" by Todd R. Weiss, January 14, 2002
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,67373,00.html

Integrated Solutions for Retailers, "A Step Toward Collaboration", by
Stephanie Roussel-Dupre, August 2001 (Saks Deployment)
http://www.ismretail.com/articles/2001_08/010803.htm

Logility Winter newsletter with portion about Saks
http://www.logility.com/newsletter/newsletterwinter.html#Saks%20Plans

SupplyChainBrain.com, "Empty Shelves Mean Lost Sales For Retailers,
But Tech Solutions Offer Help", by Jean V. Murphy, May 2000.
http://www.supplychainbrain.com/archives/5.00.techsolutions.htm


Search terms: point of sales system retailer (retailer name)
Example: ://www.google.com/search?q=point+of+sales+system+retailer+Federated

Clarification of Answer by snapanswer-ga on 02 Aug 2002 14:33 PDT
Federated      QRS 
Saks           QRS, Logility Voyager 
Nordstrom      Retek, Fujitsu (new), Wincor-Nixdorf 
May            QRS

I didn't post vendors for these in the original answer.
Lord & Taylor  Unable to find a reference.
Neiman Marcus  STS-NSB Group
Henri Bendel   NCR
(It appears that Henri Bendel is part of The Limited Group)

Vendors:
STS-NSB Group
http://www.nsbgroup.com/NSBGROUP/pd/northAmerica.cfm?geo=18

NCR
http://www.ncr.com/solutions/store_automation/rsa-pos.htm


Articles:
RT Magazine, "Making Order Out of Chaos" by Jo Fleischer, October 1999
http://www.ncr.com/repository/articles/store_automation/sa_making_order.htm

Retail Info Systems News "Linux Looks Good to Retail" by Dylan Tweney,
August 2000.  Neiman Marcus Neoware clients for retail managers (not
POS)
http://www.risnews.com/archive/Aug2000/Aug2000_2.shtml

Also, let me know if further detail is needed, if you are more
interested in hardware or software, cash registers, system
integrators, etc.  I would be happy to look into this further for you.
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